CARLSBAD, Calif. -- A Carlsbad man told 10News he came much closer to a convicted serial killer than he cared to remember.

Armand Cerami appeared on a 1978 episode of "The Dating Game" with Rodney Alcala. Alcala was convicted of murdering five people last week, including 12-year-old Huntington Beach resident Robin Samsoe. The jury in that case has recommended the death penalty for Alcala.

Cerami didn't remember who was on the show with him until the episode was played during Alcala's trial and friends e-mailed him.

"And I'm looking at this and I'm not even believing what I'm seeing. I'm three feet away from a serial killer. My God," Cerami told 10News.

On the show, Acala was Bachelor No. 1 and Cerami was No. 3.

Cerami remembered Alcala didn't have a lot of personality and called him a non-entity.

"The people [in the audience] were actually snickering, even low-murmuring boos as to his answers," said Cerami.

Bachelor No. 2, Jed Mills, told CNN Alcala "got creepier and more negative. He was a standout creepy guy in my life."

In the episode, bachelorette Cheryl Bradshaw chose Alcala as the winner. However, the two never went on their date to the Magic Mountain amusement park.

Acala was arrested a year after his TV appearance for the kidnapping and murder of Samsoe.

Thirty-two years later, Cerami told 10News he doesn't have any sympathy for Bachelor No. 1.

"Just being around somebody who would do something like that, you want to take him out and boil him in olive oil," said Cerami. "Let's just say that I hope he gets what's coming to him. Quickly."